Today, Pierre Bellon, founder of Sodexo, is the Honorary Chairman of the company he started in 1966, and which he ran as its Chairman until 2005. In 1987, he launched the Association for the Progress of Management (APM). In 2011, he set up the Pierre Bellon Foundation for Human Development. From 1981 to 2005, he was a vice-president of the French employers’ association, initially known as the CNPF, renamed the Medef in 1998.